Biblical and classical myths: The mythological framework of western culture

Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-471

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1. KJV King James Bible (1611 with some later emendations)
2. AV Authorized Version (same thing)
3. RV Revised Version (OT 1884, NT 1881, Apocrypha 1895)
4. ASV American Standard Version (1901)
5. RSV Revised Standard Version (U.S.-OT 1952, NT 1946, Apocrypha 1957)
6. NEB New English Bible (British 1970, with Apocrypha)
7. NIV New International Version (U.S. 1973)
8. NRSV New Revised Standard Version (U.S. 1989, with apocrypha)
9. See Stephen M. Sheeley and Robert N. Nash, Jr., The Bible in English Translation: An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997).
10. The Bible: Authorized King James Version. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 (World’s Classics). Includes "The Translators to the Reader," "The Epistle Dedicatory," and the Apocrypha. Introduction and very compressed commentary, with a reach into cultural history, are broadly based, nontheological, and richly illuminating. Other recent Bible editions with valuable extras are the Oxford Annotated RSV (ed. May and Metzger) and NRSV (ed. Coogan et al.) and the NIV Study Bible (Zondervan).
11. Bible Atlases. Many available (amazon.com at time of writing lists 120): most are historically arranged, supplied with illustrations and charts, and packed with information. Very full and detailed is Harper Atlas of the Bible, ed. J.B. Pritchard (New York: Harper, 1987). Good but less elaborate are Macmillan Bible Atlas (rev. ed., 1977), closely tied to the Bible narrative up to the second century A.D.; Holman Bible Atlas (1998); Oxford Bible Atlas, with section on "Archaeology and the Bible" (1985); and Atlas of the Bible and Christianity, ed. Tim Dowley, with chapters on the early and the modern Church (1997). An outline version, adequate for most non-scholarly purposes and taking in "The Hellenistic World"' "The New Testament," and "Modern Times," is The Illustrated Bible Atlas, with historical notes by RE Bruce (Jerusalem: Carta, 1994).
12. Charles, R.H. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. 1913. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.2 vols.
13. Cruden, Alexander. Cruden’s Complete Concordance [to the Old and New Testaments]. 1737. London: Lutterworth Press, 2003. The ancestor of modern Bible concordances. Its late-nineteenth-century successors, notably those by Robert Young and James Strong (both likewise based on the AV), append the original Hebrew, Aramaic (Strong’s "Chaldee"), and Greek vocabularies. Many concordances (cf. Zondervan’s to the NIV) come in a range of modern editions.
14. James, Montague Rhodes, ed. and trans. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.
15. Schneemelcher, Wilhelm, ed. New Testament Apocrypha. Eng. trans, ed. R. McL. Wilson. Louisville: John Knox, 1991. 2 vols.
16. Bobrick, Benson. Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. From Wycliffe and the early struggles for an English Bible to the Revolution of 1689.
17. Cornfeld, Gaalya. Archaeology of the Bible: Book by Book. New York: Harper, 1976.
18. Daniell, David. The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven: Yale UP, 2003. 900-page coverage of the significnt translations through to the twentieth century with broad cultural range; discusses, e.g., Handel’s Messiah, Blake, Holman Hunt, U.S. slavery, and U.S. "Jesus fiction" to Ben Hur (1880). Unusually informative illustrations and captions.
19. Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Free Press, 2001. Authors find Biblical narrative to be less history than "a brilliant product of the human imagination" and thus of universal import.
20. Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? New York: Summit, 1987. An examination of how the earlier historical books, Genesis to 2 Chronicles, were put together and with what effect.
21. Gordon, Cyrus, and Gary A. Rendsburg. The Bible and the Ancient Near East. 1953. New York: Norton, 1997. Largely running comment on the historical books.
22. Mazar, Amihay. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000-586 BCE. New York: Doubleday, 1992. (Anchor Bible Reference Library.)
23. McGrath, Alister E. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture. New York: Doubleday, 2001. Story of the KJV’s creation, production, and dissemination, from the invention of the printing press and "the rise of English as a national language"; brief coverage thereafter to nineteenth century.
24. Nicolson, Adam. God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: Harper Collins, 2003. [British title: Power and Glory.] Personalities and power politics, 1603-11.
25. Pearlman, Moshe. Digging Up the Bible: The Stories behind the Great Archaeological Discoveries in the Holy Land. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
26. Dalley. Stephanie, ed. and trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: The Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. (World’s Classics.)
27. Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: Free Press, 1992.
28. Gray, John. Near Eastern Mythology: Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine. London: Hamlyn, 1969. Text complemented by particularly splendid illustrations.
29. Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity. 1958. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
30. Josephus. Jewish Antiquities, in The New Complete Works ofjosephus, trans. William Whiston with commentary by Paul L. Maier. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Press, 1999. 47-663.
31. McCall, Henrietta. Mesopotamian Myths. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
32. Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Random House, 1979.
33. Philo Judaeus (or "Philo of Alexandria"). The Works ofPhilo, Complete and Unabridged, trans. C.D. Yonge. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1993.
34. Pritchard, J.B., ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1954. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969.
35. Alter, Robert, and Frank Kermode, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. Literary-critical exposition, in both book-by-book and general essays.
36. Caird, George. Language and Imagery of the Bible. London: Duckworth, 1980.
37. Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982. In effect an expanded and more structured version of these lectures.
38. Frye, Northrop. Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
39. Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. Reading the Women of the Bible. New York: Schocken, 2002. A work of Jewish scholarship, so that in AV terms "Bible" means the Old Testament and some names have different forms, notably "Rivka" for Rebekah. Reads stories of Biblical women as "elastic, complex, ambiguous."
40. Josipovici, Gabriel. The Book of God: A Response to the Bible. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988. "… fresh and energetic, casting insights in all directions…" N. Frye.
41. Norton, David. A History of the English Bible as Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Compressed version of his 2-vol. 1993 History of the Bible as Literature. Study of the KJ and Revised versions with their background and influence: "an examination of the shifting relationships between religion and culture": engagingly written.
42. Prickett, Stephen. Words and the Word: Language, Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Examines the historical and continuing "debate on the relationship of poetry to religious language."
43. Carpenter, Thomas H. Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
44. Dowden, Ken. The Uses of Greek Mythology. London, New York: Routledge, 1988. Uses to the Greeks themselves; that is, a valuable, unstuffy exposition of backgrounds and contexts.
45. Edmunds, Lowell, ed. Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Essays on such modern approaches as the psychoanalytic, the structural, etc.
46. Gantz, Timothy. Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
47. Grant, Michael. Myths of the Greeks and Romans. 1962. New York: Meridian, 1995. Very full handbook on myths and their afterlife. Updated bibliography.
48. Mayerson, Philip. Classical Mythology in Literature, Art and Music. Waltham, Mass.: Xerox College Publishing, [1971].
49. Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth. Prentice, 1995. College textbook with wideranging presentation; extensive bibliographies.
50. Brown, Norman O. Theogony, Hesiod. Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1953. Introductory essay, translation.
51. Clarke, Howard. The Art of the Odyssey. 1967. Wauconda, 111.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1989.
52. Dodds, E.R., ed. The Plays of Euripides: Bacchae. 1944. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Important introductory essay; Greek text.
53. Edmunds, Lowell. Myth and Poetry in Homer. Highland Park, N.J.: December Press, 1993.
54. Edwards, Mark. Homer, Poet of the Iliad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
55. Galinsky, G. Karl. Ovid’s Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects. Oxford: Blackwell, 1975.
56. Green, Peter, ed. The Argonautica, by Apollonios Rhodios. Trans, with introduction, commentary, and glossary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
57. Henry, Elisabeth. The Vigour of Prophecy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. Virgil’s Aeneid seen largely through its mythology.
58. Hine, Daryl, trans. The Homeric Hymns, and The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice. New York: Atheneum, 1972.
59. Lesky, Albin. Greek Tragedy. Trans. H.A. Frankfort. New York: Barnes, 1965.
60. Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. 1965. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. This edition has audio and video CD.
61. Page, Denys. Folktales in the Odyssey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.
62. Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion, Archaic and Classical. Trans. John Raffan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
63. Carpenter, Thomas H., and Christopher A. Faraone, eds. Masks of Dionysus. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Besides Dionysos, Pan, Theseus (see below), numerous other figures and their afterlives are treated in books titled after them: check catalogues under, for example, Aeneas, Cadmus/Kadmos, Heracles/Herakles, Hermes, Narcissus, Oedipus, Orpheus, Pandora, Persephone, Sphinx, Zeus.
64. Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddesses? A Source Book. Elmsford, N.Y. Pergamon, 1990.
65. Fitton, J. Lesley. The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
66. Gardner, Jane F. Roman Myths. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
67. Goodison, Lucy, and Christina Morris, eds. Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence. London: British Museum, 1998.
68. Grant, Michael. The Ancient Mediterranean. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969.
69. Guthrie, W.K.C. Orpheus and Greek Religion. 1935. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
70. Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
71. Merivale, Patricia. Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969.
72. Meyer, Marvin W., ed. The Ancient Mysteries, A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World. New York: Harper, 1987.
73. Neumann, Erich. Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York: Harper, 1962.
74. Nilsson, Martin P. The Mycenean Origins of Greek Mythology [1932], with a new introduction and bibliography by Emily Vermeule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
75. Reeder, Ellen D., ed. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. Exhibition catalogue with fine illustrations and extensive essays.
76. Seznec, Jean. The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art. Trans. Barbara Sessions. (Bollingen Series 38.) New York: Pantheon, 1953.
77. Vermeule, Emily. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
78. Ward, Anne, ed. The Quest for Theseus. New York: Praeger, 1970.
79. The following web sites are worth trying: theoi.com uvic.ca /grs /bowman /myth romansonline.com